Fishing Report 5
November 2018
Monday
Hot and humid so far today with no wind, Rain is forecast in
the evening. Wave hight 1.4 period 8 barometer 1009-1003.
High Tide 02.06 Low Tide 08.07
Tuesday
SW gusting 29 first thing and remains like that all day,
Rain is forecast later in the day with a max of 20. Wave height 1.4 climbing to
3.3 period 9 barometer 1005-1014.
High Tide 02.44 Low Tide 08.44
Wednesday
SW gusting 30 dropping to 19 later in the afternoon with the
onset of rain, max temp 20. Wave height 3.9 dropping to 3.3 period 11 barometer
pretty stable at 1022.
High Tide 03.20 Low Tide 09.18 New moon spring.
Thursday
SW gusting 11 then around midday it swings to a SE gusting 4
and by late afternoon it swings to an E gusting 13. Partly cloudy with a max of
22. Wave height 2.3 – 2 period 10 Barometer 1024-1018.
High Tide 03.53 Low Tide 09.51
Lagoon
The water conditions have not been god for the past week due
to the heavy rain so fishing has been very boring to say the least however
while things were slow some local lads decided to test their bait mortar by bombing
balls of ice from the slip way across the lagoon but all accounts they were
pretty successful with their contraption and are going to take it to the beach
as soon as they get a gap. Although we have rain forecast this week we hope it
does not affect the water and the lagoon will be back to its normal colour
later on in the week.
Surf
With the weather like is was over the last week and this
weekend, it was time to braai as in “Ons gaan nou Braai” (We are going to BBQ
soon). What you need is to get some mates around and make a fire telling your
mates we will start cooking soon, as the fire is ready shout to your wife to
bring the meat outside, she will them bring a frozen leg of lamb out and for
sure your mates are going to give you that WTF look. You then unwrap the meat
and baste it and sprinkle with braai spice and put it on the braai grid and
start turning it every now and then. We know the sharpest knife in the house is
your bait knife so take it out of your tackle box and for the effect it must
have some old Sard juice where the handle meets the blade. Cut slithers of lamb
off and serve on Garlic Bread, baste again sprinkle with braai spice and continue
till you get to the bone. That will fool them and it tastes very nice. Back to
fishing, one of my informants shot down to the beach this morning and loaded up
with fish as they say. Plenty of Shad (Summer Shad as we call them, the little
ones) however they managed some nice size Snapper Kob and well as Milky Sharks
and a Spotted Grunter note all the Shad went back, it is still closed season
even on a Monday when you are the only group on the beach.
Ski boat
Seems like the last week has been a good week for boat maintenance,
although Amatikulu Ski Boat club had a trip to Vidal over the weekend, they did
manage to get out to sea and some Dorado were caught, I believe not a lot of
fish were caught but fun was had by all.
